question about tkinter

[Peter Otten]

robert schaefer wrote:

>  This is my first posting to this list so please be gentle -
> 
>  I am new to python and am using it on red-hat linux (I am new to that
>  too). I am responsible for installing open source packages (including
>  python) onto a distributed system of linux boxes.
> 
>  My question is, on python version 2.6.2 tkinter refuses to install.

Does it say "I'm sorry Bob, I'm afraid I can't do this"?

>  Without tkinter, I cannot use Idle.
> 
>  I looked at the install/configure script and hacked it a bit, but every
>  fix only caused new problems.
>  There are serious issues with that script for  finding necessary
>  libraries.

If there are serious problems you have to give some details.

However, if in the past a newbie had problems with Tkinter support on linux 
the most frequent problem was that the Tcl/Tk development libraries weren't 
installed. I don't know how those are called on Red Hat, maybe something 
like

tcl*-dev.rpm

Did you install these before running the configure script?

Peter